Posted on 06/19/2020 6:36:22 PM PDT by Morgana
A jaw-dropping video appears to show a crowd of thieves looting TVs from a moving train near Chicago on Sunday as protests over the death of George Floyd rage.
The footage, posted on YouTube Tuesday, shows dozens of people climbing aboard the snail-paced cargo train and raiding boxes of big screen TVs. Some of the crooks then hop off the train and flee.
The train is moving. The train is moving bro, look These folks are stealing, a man shooting the footage can be heard saying.
Titled Protesters Loot TVs Off Moving Train In Chicago, the video has also been posted on Twitter under the hashtags #chicagoprotest and #georgefloyd.
A rep for Union Pacific said that train was burglarized outside of its rail yard off Western Avenue in Chicago.
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All debts are paid. By someone.
Feds could get involved, too, as its an interstate shipment.
Ive talked with railroad police who mention theres a fairly steep incline leaving the Los Angeles area, that thieves routinely bust off the locks and raid the containers when the trains slow to 5-10 mph.
That video is racist. It is cleverly edited so as not show the white people who were also looting.
“They did it. A moving train too. “
The reason automobiles are shipped in enclosed (caged) rail cars is because, otherwise, the cars would arrive at their destinations stripped of salable parts. (Wheels, hubcaps, batteries and even engine parts.) This was accomplished by boarding the rail cars on slow curves, then tossing parts off parts at designated areas and then getting off on another slow curve.
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